Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbol of that realization and will reassure undergraduates and graduates alike that their efforts to see Harvard field representative athletic teams against its natural and long-standing opponents will not be wasted. But the CRIMSON will have none of this so you fill three paragraphs with vitriolic prose which recommends the resumption of the training table. Mere resumption of the training table would serve no purpose in itself, but the new Varsity Club and the good will and interest that it surely will revive, will. You have done the college a great is-service. Charles R. Glynn '50 Vice President...
Miss Hahn brings to this biography her unquestioned talent for giving an intimate impression of her characters, as well as her casual, chatty prose style with its humor shining quietly around the edges. As in her earlier biographies, she seems to take the reader into her confidence as she runs over the conflicting records of an anecdote (she is an indefatigable researcher) or discusses the curious character of her heroine. Unquestionably Miss Hahn is one of the finest biographers writing today; certainly only she could have made such a success out of Fanny Burney...
...Sales. Despite the caution of the first two publishers, Novelist Winsor has almost certainly produced another bestseller; not an avalanche like Amber, but a book that is likely to start a right jolly little bookslide. She has done it, as before, by main shrewdness, by the use of a prose so obvious that it can (and almost has to) be read under a hair-dryer, and by a skill in mixing the formula for bestselling pap that should keep her customers cooing for more...
...forces his characters to cast up their spiritual accounts in an eerie English country house. All Williams needs to get things started is a rare deck of cards, the perfectly normal Coningsby family and a suitor for Nancy Coningsby who has gypsy connections. From there on, in deceptively simple prose, Williams keeps his story moving without a hitch on three levels: 1) a more-or-less conventional love story; 2) a psychological and poetic mystery which employs gypsy magic and visitations from out of this world; 3) a treatise on God as the source of love, and love...
...amazement. It is the language in which he says heaven and earth in one word. It is the language in which he speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not . . . give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time...